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The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was a wartime intelligence agency, and a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the United States Armed Forcesbranches. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, World War 2, World War II,...
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From the 1960s through the 1990s, the U.S. Government declassified the majority of its security-classified records relating to World War II. Yet, 60 years after the war, millions of pages of wartime and postwar records remained classified. Many of these records contained information related to war crimes and war criminals. This information had been sought over the years by congress, government prosecutors, historians and victims of war crimes. In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, World War 2, World War II,...
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This collection of material by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and essays offer an unprecedented, wide-ranging look at the man and his career as the United States' top intelligence official and one of its most important diplomats during a crucial decade of the Cold War. From mid-1966, when he became DCI, to late 1976, when he left...
Topics: cia-collection, nationalsecurityarchive
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The Czechoslovak crisis began in January 1968. The Czech communist leadership embarked on a program of dramatic liberalization of the political, economic, and social orders. These reforms triggered increasing Soviet concerns culminating in the invasion of 21 August 1968. This collection of documents pertains to these issues, the responses and analysis of this event in history.
Topic: CIA
Documents from taken from the American embassy in Iran in 1979. The documents were subsequently distributed throughout Iran and labeled "Documents from the U.S. Espionage Den."
Topics: Iran, Embassy, CIA, CIA Station, Central Intelligence Agency
Description via RBTH The video shows two "well-groomed ladies," the CIA agent's wife Laura Carlson and the wife of yet another CIA agent, Janice Chisholm, leaving the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and heading to a coffee shop. Having entered the coffee shop, Chisholm went to the toilet while Carlson waited for her near the door. A while later, a man in a hat went out of the toilet and hastily left the coffee shop. It transpired that this was a U.S. intelligence officer, Timothy Finnegan, and...
Topics: Russia, Moscow, Spy, Espionage, Disguise, Counterintelligence, Counter-intelligence
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Many, if not all, of the Phoenix Program materials were created or collected and donated by Douglas Valentine. The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam(AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The Phoenix Program was designed to identify and...
Topics: CIA, Phoenix, Phoenix Program, Assassination, Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Cold war
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STAR GATE was an umbrella term for the Intelligence Community effort that used remote viewers who claimed to use clairvoyance, precognition, or telepathy to acquire and describe information about targets that were blocked from ordinary perception. The records include documentation of remote viewing sessions, training, internal memoranda, foreign assessments, and program reviews. The STAR GATE program was also called SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH, DRAGOON ABSORB, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK....
Topics: CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, STARGATE, SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
Papers from [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to ESAU.
Topics: CIA, ESAU, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
239 CIA files on UFOs
Topics: CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, UFO, UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Flying Object
Chief CIA Analyst Regularly Leaked to Press
Topic: CIA
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Folder: CHRONOLOGY OF RECENT INTEREST IN EXCEPTIONAL FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; STAR GATE was an umbrella term for the Intelligence Community effort that used remote viewers who claimed to use clairvoyance, precognition, or telepathy to acquire and describe information about targets that were blocked from ordinary perception. The records include documentation of remote viewing sessions, training, internal memoranda, foreign assessments, and program reviews....
Topics: CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, STARGATE, SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
Nazis In South America
Topic: CIA
MKULTRA dataset
Topic: MKULTRA
A secret wartime 281 page report, authored by Walter C. Langer in 1943. Office of Strategic Services director General William J. Donovan suggested to psychologist Walter C. Langer that a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler needed to be developed. It was hoped that an accurate study would be helpful in gaining a deeper insight into Adolf Hitler and the German people and that the study might serve as a guide for Allied propaganda activities as well as for future dealings with Hitler and the...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 2, World War Two, WW2
Abramtchik, Mikola
Topic: OSS
Files collected by the Central Intelligence Agency relating the missile gap.
Topics: Missile gap, Cold war, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of...
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Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946 in 42 volumes
Topics: 1893-1946, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, Nuremberg...
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Folder: CHINESE JOURNAL OF SOMATIC SCIENCE VOLUME 1, NO. 4 4TH ISSUE (AUGUST, 1991); STAR GATE was an umbrella term for the Intelligence Community effort that used remote viewers who claimed to use clairvoyance, precognition, or telepathy to acquire and describe information about targets that were blocked from ordinary perception. The records include documentation of remote viewing sessions, training, internal memoranda, foreign assessments, and program reviews. The STAR GATE program was also...
Topics: CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, STARGATE, SCANATE, GONDOLA WISH,...
FBI Files on CIA Liaison
Topics: FBI, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation
OSS/CIA files on Adolf Hitler.
Topics: OSS, CIA, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act, Office of...
Documents relating to the creation of [the] Central Intelligence Agency.
Topics: CIA, OSS, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Strategic Services, CIG, Central Intelligence...
Documents form [the] Central Intelligence Agency relating to CAESAR.
Topics: CIA, Central intelligence Agency, CAESAR, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
Documents from [the] Central Intelligence Agency regarding POLO.
Topics: CIA, POLO, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act
DTLINEN (formerly EARTHENWARE, GRAVEYARD) (1951-60) was a CIA covert propaganda, harassment, and sabotage activity subsidizing both the overt and covert the activities of the Kampgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (Fighting Group against Inhumanity (KgU)) against East Germany. The KgU (CAJERSEY), an overt organization, sought to expose conditions in the USSR and Soviet Zone of Germany which were considered crimes against humanity. Heinrich Otto Krause associated with Project. Erich Von Sivers...
Topic: CIA
Psychological Strategy Board documents from CIA
Topics: Psychological Strategy Board, Psychological operations, Psychology, PsyOps, Psychological warfare,...
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
Hoettl, Wilhelm
Topic: CIA
QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB (formerly AEBEEHIVE) (1970-91) superceded Project AERODYNAMIC and supported the Ukrainian émigré organization ZP / UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) with a New York publishing arm called Prolog Research Corporation (QRTENURE, AETENURE) and a Munich Office, Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE), publisher of the monthly journal Suchasnist. CIA terminated QRPLUMB after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 and provided funds to enable Prolog to...
Topic: CIA
GRCROOND / GRREPAIR (1952-62) sought to develop and strengthen the Austrian paramilitary program so that this program could be activated at full strength in the event of hostilities. The program included staybehind, evasion and escape; guerrilla warfare and resistance; paramilitary training; and caching of equipment. Egbert Hochhauser, Hans Tschurtscenthaler considered for possible use on Project GRCROOND.
Topic: CIA
German Intelligence Service
Topic: CIA
The FBI and CIA files relating to Fidel Castro.
Topics: Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba, CIA, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation,...
Bagatais, Heinrich
Topic: CIA
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
PETER (Belgian cryptonym). VENUS (cryptonym). Associated with VENUS Project.
Topic: CIA
2,370 Pages of White House, State Department, National Security Council, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and British Prime Minister's Cabinet Office files on Idi Amin. Idi Amin was born in the 1920's in the West Nile Province. His name at birth is disputed among researchers. In time he was to be known as Idi Amin Dada. In the 1940's Amin was recruited by a British colonial army officer. Amin joined the King's African Rifles (KAR) of the British colonial army in 1946. Amin took part...
Topic: Idi Amin
A 240 page report completed in October, 1943, by Harvard psychologist Dr. Henry A. Murray. The report attempted to present an analysis of Adolf Hitler's personality and its development. This analysis was then used to make predictions about what Hitler would do after an Allied victory and how he should be dealt with if taken into custody. The reporting sought to give the OSS an understanding of how it may be able influence Hitler's mental condition and behavior. Murray correctly predicted that...
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 3, World War Two, WW3
CIA files relating to the A-12.
Topics: A12, A-12, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information...
Books and monographs produced by [the] Central Intelligence Agency.
Topics: CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
AEDEPOT (formerly AEREADY) (1957-65) was designed to provide a trained "Hot War" cadre of agents who could be used during a period of heightened tensions/increased alert or during actual hostilities against the Soviet Union. Mikola Abramtchik, Constantine Mierlak, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
Topic: CIA
Files from [the] CIA's Lessons Learned From The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia collection.
Topics: Soviet, Czechoslovakia, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of...
AEACRE (1952-64) established a mechanism for the planning and conduct of REDSOX operations via a Domestic Operations Base (DOB) used for the interrogation, assessment, training, briefing, and preparation for dispatch of agents for infiltration into the USSR. Aleks Kurgvel, Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project.
Topic: OSS
Gehlen Organization counterintelligence projects
Topics: CIA, Gehlen, Counterintelligence
Felfe served in the SS, as an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant). At various times he worked for the intelligence services of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and West Germany. From 1951-61 he was a highly effective double agent.
Topic: CIA
Imperial Japanese Army officer. He became head of the Operations Section of the Army General Staff, 1941–5, ranked as colonel. He worked with Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, on Japanese planning for some of the major battles of World War II. His name was mentioned in CIA documents as a plotter in a 1952 plan to kill the Japanese prime minister of the time, Shigeru Yoshida.
Topic: CIA
NOSTRIL (cryptonym). George A. BALLACH (alias). Kenneth W. DESNEW (pseudonym). Associated with AEACRE, AEASTER, AEDEPOT (formerly AEREADY) Projects.
Topic: CIA
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
Topics: War crime trials, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
Mueller, Heinrich
Topic: CIA
An SS-Hauptsturmführer (rank equivalent to army captain) and Gestapo member. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured French prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for their anti-Marxist efforts and also helped him escape to South America. The Bundesnachrichtendienst, the West German intelligence agency, recruited him, and he may have helped the CIA capture Argentine...
Topic: CIA
KIBITZ was Karlsruhe Base's program to develop a staybehind net in Germany (1949-53). Walter Kopp, Hans Rues, Eduard Woellner associated with Project. Anton Dukavits worked in Walter Kopp's net.
Topic: CIA
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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946 - April, 1949
Topics: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949, Nuremberg Trial of Major German War...
Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination....
Topics: JFK assassination, Kennedy assassination
CIA documents relating to the end of the Cold War.
Topics: Cold War, Soviet Union, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom...
HARVARD (1951-65) was designed initially to provide safehouse and operational aid facilities for CIA activities in Germany. In 1952, the HARVARD mission was expanded to include the rehabilitation and resettlement of defectors, agents, and agent-trainees.
Topic: CIA
Balodis, Nikolajs
Topic: CIA
A 1,019 page Office of Strategic Service document produced by Walter C. Langer. This report contains typed up abstracts taken from source material used by Langer, when he was working on the report "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend." The report contains extracts of key points from 211 different sources.
Topics: OSS, Office of Strategic Services, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, World War 5, World War Two, WW5
This information sheds important historical light on the Holocaust and other war crimes, as well as the U.S. Government’s involvement with war criminals during the Cold War. These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Central Intelligence Group (CIG), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Topics: War crimes, Nazi
AECAVATINA-1, CAVATINA-1 (cryptonyms). Bandera was recruited before World War II into the Nazi Germany military intelligence Abwehr for espionage, counter-espionage and sabotage. Their goal was to run diversion activities after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. Myelnik was given code name 'Consul I'.
Topic: CIA
Hitler Youth - U.S. Intelligence Files and Photos
Topics: Hitler Youth, Hitler Jugend, OSS, Germany, Nazi Germany, FOIA, Freedom of Information, Freedom of...
CIA files relating to the Guatemalan coup.
Topics: Guatemala, Coup, Guatemala coup, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, FOIA, Freedom of Information,...
Mengele, Josef
Topic: CIA
Raoul Wallenberg CIA
Topics: CIA, Wallenberg, Sweden, Swedish, Raoul Wallenberg, KGB, Kidnapped, Kidnapping, Central...
DTPILLAR (1951-67) refers to CIA support to The Asia Foundation, which undertook programs via private institutions in Asia to counteract the spread and appeal of communism. Karl Herczeg associated with Project. Minoru Maeda considered for possible use on Project.
Topic: CIA
AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data...
Topic: CIA
Associated with Project QKBROIL.
Topic: CIA
Hazners, Vilis
Topic: CIA
DoJ - FBI - State Department - CIA and DoD files relating to Klaus Barbie.
Topics: Klaus Barbie, CIA, Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Justice, FOIA,...
AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data...
Topic: OSS
AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data...
Topic: OSS
CAMISOLE, GULL (OSS/SSU/CIG cryptonyms).
Topic: CIA
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